Social media outrage about blackface stories doesn't carry the same weight as focusing on endemic problems that blight the lives of children and steal their growing years. If anything, obsessions with the trivial is little more than intellectual drift, and that is the worst sin for conscious people.

We've always heard there are hundreds of social science studies that have proven the positive effects of desegregating public schools. We haven't heard as much about how many of those studies haven't been relevant for decades.

As a black education advocate, and a supporter of alternative education, it gets tiring having these basic bloggers who are threatened by competition constantly attempting to define my work as something it's not.